The impacts of interannual climate variability and agricultural inputs on water footprint of crop production in an irrigation district of China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 444, Issue , 2013, Pages 498-507

  Sun, Shikun ^a,b,c,d   Wu, Pute ^a,b,d   Wang, Yubao ^b,d   Zhao, Xining ^a,b,d   Liu, Jing ^b,d   Zhang, Xiaohong ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d National Engineering Research Center for Water Saving Irrigation at Yangling   (China)

^e The Administration of Hetao irrigation district of Inner Mongolia   (China)

Author keywords

Blue water; Climatic variation; Green water; Hetao irrigation district; Influence factor analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AGRICULTURAL WATER; AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT; ANNUAL AVERAGE; ASSESSMENT OF WATER RESOURCES; BLUE WATER; CLIMATIC FACTORS; CLIMATIC VARIATION; CONTRIBUTION RATE; CROP PRODUCTION; GREEN WATER; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; IRRIGATION DISTRICTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CROPS; CULTIVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

IRRIGATION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CHINA; HETAO; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84871943874     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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